History

During Women’s History Month in March, the Memphis Women’s History Trail will be unveiled. Follow it across the city to celebrate Memphis women who led the way in fields from entertainment to social justice.

Piggly Wiggly, the country’s first self-service grocery store, opens in Memphis. Walk through a replica and see Making Memphis: 200 Years of Community at the Pink Palace Museum. The bicentennial exhibit debuts in March.

A sanitation workers strike brings Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis, where he rallies supporters at Clayborn Temple. Visit the site's I Am A Man Plaza, commemorating the workers and the 50th anniversary of Dr. King's death.